Vapor-burner



HOPKINS & ANDERSON.

Vapor Burner.

Patented Aprii 3, 1860.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAML. B. HOPKINS AND E. H. ANDERSON, OF EASTON, MARYLAND.

VAPOR-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,718, dated April 3, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL B. HOPKINS and EDWARD H. ANDERSON, of Easton, in the county of Talbot, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and Improved Vapor or Gas Generator, Adapted to Single Tube Fluid Lamps of Every Description; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes it from all other generators before known and of the usual manner of making and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the generator. Fig. 2 is a section.

The nature of our invention and improvement consists first, in providing any single tube fluid lamp with a slide A, such as are already in use on single tube fluid lamps to decrease the light, to the top of which slide a split burner B, is attached by solder or otherwise, over the top of burner B, a circular convex plate C is passed and securely fastened by solder or otherwise, the upper surface of the plate being level with the bottom of the cut in the burner B, near the lower extremity of the slide A, a circular plate D, is attached for the purpose of operating the slide A as may be desired.

To enable others to make and use our invention we will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

We construct or procure the single tube fluid lamps of any known form and insert the ordinary fluid wick in the tube F, of the lamp in the usual manner as used for ordinary burning, letting the wick project a little above the top of the tube; after which we attach the burner B, the circular convex plate C, and the circular plate D, to the slide A, of the lamp all attached and constructed as above set forth, reference being had to the drawings-after which we pass the slide A over the tube F, of the lamp to its original position.

Now if the lamp be filled with oil and a lighted match or the flame of another lamp be held under the circular convex plate C, the oil in the tube F, of the lamp will be converted into vapor or gas from the action of the heat, and in the space of a few seconds of time will ignite at the cut in the burner B, and will continue to increase until the flame follows the inner side of the convex plate C, up to the upper points; the heat from which continues to generate the gas or vapor to support the flame. To decrease the light the slide A is raised by means of the circular plate or button D, as formerly used. The raising of the slide conveys the heating surface farther from the wick, consequently the gas is generated with less rapidity.

The various apparatus or pieces of which our generator is composed we make no claim to, separately. The converting of fluid into gaseous vapor we make no claim to nor to the attachment of generators to ordinary fluid lamps.

What we claim as our own invention and improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The original arrangement and combination of parts as above set forth, viz: the attachment of the burner B, the circular convex plate C, and the circular plate D, all as above set forth, forming a distinct apparatus capable of being attached to the ordinary slide A, of a single tube fluid lamp, by which a light equal to that given by four ordinary tubes combined, is obtained, with one-third the amount of oil, all operating and constructed as above set forth.

SAMUEL B. HOPKINS. EDWARD H. ANDERSON. Witnesses:

SAML. T. HOPKINS, WM. B. WHEELER. 

